In a loud boom sound, the scene changes, and a green and vast white world appears.
——Boom! The Flying’s large body smashes onto the water, and stirs up a large wave. In the violent shaking, Da Fei has already clearly seen the surrounding terrain.
The vast white is water glittering with white light, and the green is thick tree roots flickering with green light. Countless roots entangle into a forest above the water which boundary cannot be seen in one glance. The forest winding up is just like a huge net sprayed from the sky of the subterranean. And the sky of the subterranean is like green starry sky, emitting glittery green light.
There is water among the forest, and forest among the water. The Flying’s large body is just like a little cruise on the waterway in the forest.
——Quest Notification: You reached Pool of Radiance, Epic Quest ＜Purify Pool of Radiance＞ officially begins, please kill all the monsters within the Pool of Radiance.
Now, there is a big patch of red dots on Da Fei’s mini-map, just like densely packed clouds. This is the radar effect of God level Scouting.
Da Fei’s eyelid is jumping from surprise! Is there really so many monsters? Da Fei hurriedly takes out his telescope and sweeps it towards the forest. and cannot help but gasp. There is countless large beetles as large as dogs packed on the roots! Are these all monsters?
——Juice Sucking Devil Bug: Attack ? Defense ? HP ? Damage ? Attack Speed ? Movement Speed ? Special Ability: Flying Creature.
Oh fuck! Let’s not ask how strong these bugs are first, just the amount alone, Bro is worried Bro’s entire ship of ammunition is not as many as these bugs! And this is just one area, god knows how many bugs are there in other areas? Could it be this purifying is getting Bro to kill this many bugs?
At this time, Katarina jumps down from the bridge: “Captain, there’s totally no wind. Our ship cannot move at all! Captain, please instruct on our next step of operation.”
Operation? To where? Tens of thousands of monsters are on the surrounding roots, why move? All journeys begin with a single step, since we are already here, just start with these bugs.
Da Fei with a wave of his hand: “Prepare for battle and kill bugs!”
Katarina laughs: “Roger!” For a moment, the Jungle Archers standing on guard at both sides of the ship begin to change their formation, and forms a 100-men phalanx.
——Jungle Archer: Attack 6, Defense 5, HP 14, Damage 5-8, Attack Speed 13, Movement Speed 13, Command Point 2, hiring fee 410 gold coins, Special Ability: Double shot, Pierce, Precise Shooting, Shooting Formation Close Battle Punishment.
This is the level 3 Unit the Elf race is proud of, Jungle Archer. It is undoubtedly the strongest level 3 Unit. Its Damage, and hiring fees are really close to level 4 Unit. And his special ability is Double Shot, which has already far exceeded the damage of level 4 Units. With the output in a month, it has similar strength to level 7 long range Unit with its attack. And it is a long range troops that comes with the Pierce Skill, that lets it bring out the Double Shot special ability potential to the fullest. And Double Shot also brings out the high Luck of Elf race to its fullest potential, so when in battle, the Jungle Archers’ formation is filled with rainbow light flashing one after another, so blinding that people cannot look straight at it.
And Jungle Archer’s high Attack Speed of 13 is even more of a nightmare to other races’ long range troops. Even if the opposite side is Titan, the strongest long range Unit of the neutral faction, Wizard’s Academy, it still has the possibility of trashing them with the first round of attack by attacking first. Anyways, once the Jungle Archers have free rein to attack, losing is already destined.
And Jungle Archer’s weakness is also very obvious, that is HP is heartbreakingly little, and is not immune to mental-type magic too. It still has a difference in nature compared to the ultimate level 7 long range unit with high HP and Defense like Titan.
Now that the first battle is nearing, there cannot be any carelessness. Da Fei still has 4 free skill points left. He learnt level 1 Archery when learning Voyager the last time, so nothing much to say about this 4 points, all use to raise Archery.
——System Notification: You spent 1 skill point to learn Intermediate Archery, Hero and long range troops’ damage increase by 20%.
……
——System Notification: You spent 1 skill point to learn Master Archery, Hero and long range troops’ damage increase by 50%.
Without a doubt, other than Elf and Academy have 3 long range Units, so Archery is a must-learn, other races’ long range Units are little and not very damaging, learning Archery is not worth it. But Archery raised to Master will be able to combine with Master War Machines’ sub-skill, Ballista Master to form War Machines sub-skill: Triple Ballista!
——Triple Ballista: Getting inspiration after Hero grasped precise archery skills, can unleash Ballista’s functions to the extreme, one shot will shoot 3 bolts in a row. The price is Ballista’s Durability will continuously reduce. (Note: Combination sub-skill must have both Skills to reach Master level to appear. How can you combine different Skills without mastering the Skill?)
So to machine style players, Archery still has its use. Looking from this angle, Elf race is actually very suitable for playing Humans’ common Ballista and hiding style, which is surround Ballista with long range troops, while close range especially those with high magic resistance like Unicorn surround the long range troops, and happily shoot away. It is stronger than Humans, be it in firepower and defenses.
However, this will sacrifice Elf race’s mobility advantage, and to Elf race, losses is definitely greater than the gains. Similarly, to the Inferno race with only 1 long range Unit, and relying on Ballista at the beginning, Archery is quite conflicting.
Now that the Skills are ready, the shooting formation is ready, and arrows are loaded.
As an exponent, Da Fei naturally will not shoot everything at one go, because he is worried the other side will charge over all at one go. In the game, because of the settings, moving at high speed makes evading attacks easy, so flying units, especially small high speed flying units is almost unbeatable to normal troops. Once encountered, to win unscathed, one has to look clearly and shoot right at the head! Or else, flying units will not give long range units the chance to reload.
And creatures like bugs normally attack in groups, so the thing to do now is to lure the bugs out.
Da Fei sends a Jungle Archer on his side to shoot at a beetle on the roots.
Shoo shoo! Two arrows left their hands, -5! The beetle explodes into a patch of white goo with a boom.
——System Notification: Your troops killed a Juice Sucking Beetle, you obtained 4 EXP.
——System Notification: You obtained incomplete information of Juice Sucking Beetle.
Oh fuck! 5 HP trash!
And at the instant the beetle is killed, the bugs on the roots and behind the roots are all alerted! Hundreds of beetles fly over in a group! They really attack together!
A golden light descends from the sky!
——System Notification: Your Deputy Hero Serbia cast Master level Light Magic “Legitimate Force”, troops’ Attack +15, magic duration of 1 in-game day.
Da Fei with a wave of his hand: “Fire!”
Boom boom! 2 layers of arrow rain left their hands, just like white salvo exploding in the sky, the bugs are pierced by the arrow rain and exploded. With the boost from the Hero’s Attack stat, and magic skill, Jungle Archers’ damage increased by at least 2 or 3 times! Especially the 18 archers led by Katarina, the all Attack Pirate, the damage is increased by 5 or 6 times!
With such a high damage, killing 5 or 6 bugs with 1 arrow is a piece of cake! As said, this is the effect he wanted! If he were to just ambush those beetles on the roots, he cannot use the piercing effect to realize mass damage, and will have lured out the beetles behind the roots, would not he been caught off guard?
The first battle is won easily. Da Fei also heaves a sigh of relief. The roots that is cleared of the beetles have holes like a sieve that are leaking white fluid.
But looking at the beetle’s weak peasant-like HP and Defense, and then looking at the big piece of red cloud on the mini-map, Da Fei feels very amiss already.
This quest should not really be to clear all these bugs, right? This is only the surrounding patch, and this surrounding patch is only a very small area on the Pool of Radiance map.
Is all these ammunition that Bro brought enough? And this place definitely cannot only have these weak beetles, right? How long will it take to clear all the bugs of this entire map? And now without wind, the ship cannot move, so he must use the magic sails? Is the mana in this magic sail enough for Bro to clear one round?
Da Fei feels a very severe ball-ache! He originally thought with the large ship, huge cannons and strong Heroes in hand, killing some BOSS is a piece of cake, and a mere epic quest should be nothing. But the result is this kind of situation? It will be slightly better if Bro’s ship is a pirate’s sail boat with oars, so what now? What is more ball-ache than having the heart but lacking the strength is having the strength but have no way to use it, and what is even more ball-ache is having having endless strength!
While thinking, buzzing sound can be heard from the sky, and Da Fei is immediately on guard!
Beetles again! Hundreds of beetles are flying from god knows where and swooping onto the roots he just cleared out, and begins sucking again!
Oh fuck! Please do not tell Bro these beetles are unlimited? If that is the case, this is obviously telling Bro, the crux of this quest is never killing these beetles in the first place! That means destroying the nest?
So that is how it is! After figuring it out, Da Fei takes out the Blood Hawk’s Flute, clicks on use, and an invisible and blurry hawk rises up. At that very instant, Da Fei’s mini-map shrinks again, and there is a red ocean on the map. Oh my fuck, counting on the mini-map seems like a bad idea by minute, better to share vision with the hawk.
Da Fei controls this hawk to move forward along the direction the bugs came from just now. Just like sitting on a plane, the sight before him is swooping towards him. Isn’t this treasure way too useful? Oh fuck, Bro really cannot bear to return it!
Finally, found it! A huge squirming mass of flesh with countless tentacles and countless holes twining the roots, and countless of beetles are flying in and out of the holes on the mass of flesh!
Oh my fuck, so disgusting, must be it! Wait for it, Bro is coming to kill ya!
Feel free to point out typos and mistakes.
In a loud boom sound, the scene changes, and a green and vast white world appears.
——Boom! The Flying’s large body smashes onto the water, and stirs up a large wave. In the violent shaking, Da Fei has already clearly seen the surrounding terrain.
The vast white is water glittering with white light, and the green is thick tree roots flickering with green light. Countless roots entangle into a forest above the water which boundary cannot be seen in one glance. The forest winding up is just like a huge net sprayed from the sky of the subterranean. And the sky of the subterranean is like green starry sky, emitting glittery green light.
There is water among the forest, and forest among the water. The Flying’s large body is just like a little cruise on the waterway in the forest.
——Quest Notification: You reached Pool of Radiance, Epic Quest ＜Purify Pool of Radiance＞ officially begins, please kill all the monsters within the Pool of Radiance.
Now, there is a big patch of red dots on Da Fei’s mini-map, just like densely packed clouds. This is the radar effect of God level Scouting.
Da Fei’s eyelid is jumping from surprise! Is there really so many monsters? Da Fei hurriedly takes out his telescope and sweeps it towards the forest. and cannot help but gasp. There is countless large beetles as large as dogs packed on the roots! Are these all monsters?
——Juice Sucking Devil Bug: Attack ? Defense ? HP ? Damage ? Attack Speed ? Movement Speed ? Special Ability: Flying Creature.
Oh fuck! Let’s not ask how strong these bugs are first, just the amount alone, Bro is worried Bro’s entire ship of ammunition is not as many as these bugs! And this is just one area, god knows how many bugs are there in other areas? Could it be this purifying is getting Bro to kill this many bugs?
At this time, Katarina jumps down from the bridge: “Captain, there’s totally no wind. Our ship cannot move at all! Captain, please instruct on our next step of operation.”
Operation? To where? Tens of thousands of monsters are on the surrounding roots, why move? All journeys begin with a single step, since we are already here, just start with these bugs.
Da Fei with a wave of his hand: “Prepare for battle and kill bugs!”
Katarina laughs: “Roger!” For a moment, the Jungle Archers standing on guard at both sides of the ship begin to change their formation, and forms a 100-men phalanx.
——Jungle Archer: Attack 6, Defense 5, HP 14, Damage 5-8, Attack Speed 13, Movement Speed 13, Command Point 2, hiring fee 410 gold coins, Special Ability: Double shot, Pierce, Precise Shooting, Shooting Formation Close Battle Punishment.
This is the level 3 Unit the Elf race is proud of, Jungle Archer. It is undoubtedly the strongest level 3 Unit. Its Damage, and hiring fees are really close to level 4 Unit. And his special ability is Double Shot, which has already far exceeded the damage of level 4 Units. With the output in a month, it has similar strength to level 7 long range Unit with its attack. And it is a long range troops that comes with the Pierce Skill, that lets it bring out the Double Shot special ability potential to the fullest. And Double Shot also brings out the high Luck of Elf race to its fullest potential, so when in battle, the Jungle Archers’ formation is filled with rainbow light flashing one after another, so blinding that people cannot look straight at it.
And Jungle Archer’s high Attack Speed of 13 is even more of a nightmare to other races’ long range troops. Even if the opposite side is Titan, the strongest long range Unit of the neutral faction, Wizard’s Academy, it still has the possibility of trashing them with the first round of attack by attacking first. Anyways, once the Jungle Archers have free rein to attack, losing is already destined.
And Jungle Archer’s weakness is also very obvious, that is HP is heartbreakingly little, and is not immune to mental-type magic too. It still has a difference in nature compared to the ultimate level 7 long range unit with high HP and Defense like Titan.
Now that the first battle is nearing, there cannot be any carelessness. Da Fei still has 4 free skill points left. He learnt level 1 Archery when learning Voyager the last time, so nothing much to say about this 4 points, all use to raise Archery.
——System Notification: You spent 1 skill point to learn Intermediate Archery, Hero and long range troops’ damage increase by 20%.
……
——System Notification: You spent 1 skill point to learn Master Archery, Hero and long range troops’ damage increase by 50%.
Without a doubt, other than Elf and Academy have 3 long range Units, so Archery is a must-learn, other races’ long range Units are little and not very damaging, learning Archery is not worth it. But Archery raised to Master will be able to combine with Master War Machines’ sub-skill, Ballista Master to form War Machines sub-skill: Triple Ballista!
——Triple Ballista: Getting inspiration after Hero grasped precise archery skills, can unleash Ballista’s functions to the extreme, one shot will shoot 3 bolts in a row. The price is Ballista’s Durability will continuously reduce. (Note: Combination sub-skill must have both Skills to reach Master level to appear. How can you combine different Skills without mastering the Skill?)
So to machine style players, Archery still has its use. Looking from this angle, Elf race is actually very suitable for playing Humans’ common Ballista and hiding style, which is surround Ballista with long range troops, while close range especially those with high magic resistance like Unicorn surround the long range troops, and happily shoot away. It is stronger than Humans, be it in firepower and defenses.
However, this will sacrifice Elf race’s mobility advantage, and to Elf race, losses is definitely greater than the gains. Similarly, to the Inferno race with only 1 long range Unit, and relying on Ballista at the beginning, Archery is quite conflicting.
Now that the Skills are ready, the shooting formation is ready, and arrows are loaded.
As an exponent, Da Fei naturally will not shoot everything at one go, because he is worried the other side will charge over all at one go. In the game, because of the settings, moving at high speed makes evading attacks easy, so flying units, especially small high speed flying units is almost unbeatable to normal troops. Once encountered, to win unscathed, one has to look clearly and shoot right at the head! Or else, flying units will not give long range units the chance to reload.
And creatures like bugs normally attack in groups, so the thing to do now is to lure the bugs out.
Da Fei sends a Jungle Archer on his side to shoot at a beetle on the roots.
Shoo shoo! Two arrows left their hands, -5! The beetle explodes into a patch of white goo with a boom.
——System Notification: Your troops killed a Juice Sucking Beetle, you obtained 4 EXP.
——System Notification: You obtained incomplete information of Juice Sucking Beetle.
Oh fuck! 5 HP trash!
And at the instant the beetle is killed, the bugs on the roots and behind the roots are all alerted! Hundreds of beetles fly over in a group! They really attack together!
A golden light descends from the sky!
——System Notification: Your Deputy Hero Serbia cast Master level Light Magic “Legitimate Force”, troops’ Attack +15, magic duration of 1 in-game day.
Da Fei with a wave of his hand: “Fire!”
Boom boom! 2 layers of arrow rain left their hands, just like white salvo exploding in the sky, the bugs are pierced by the arrow rain and exploded. With the boost from the Hero’s Attack stat, and magic skill, Jungle Archers’ damage increased by at least 2 or 3 times! Especially the 18 archers led by Katarina, the all Attack Pirate, the damage is increased by 5 or 6 times!
With such a high damage, killing 5 or 6 bugs with 1 arrow is a piece of cake! As said, this is the effect he wanted! If he were to just ambush those beetles on the roots, he cannot use the piercing effect to realize mass damage, and will have lured out the beetles behind the roots, would not he been caught off guard?
The first battle is won easily. Da Fei also heaves a sigh of relief. The roots that is cleared of the beetles have holes like a sieve that are leaking white fluid.
But looking at the beetle’s weak peasant-like HP and Defense, and then looking at the big piece of red cloud on the mini-map, Da Fei feels very amiss already.
This quest should not really be to clear all these bugs, right? This is only the surrounding patch, and this surrounding patch is only a very small area on the Pool of Radiance map.
Is all these ammunition that Bro brought enough? And this place definitely cannot only have these weak beetles, right? How long will it take to clear all the bugs of this entire map? And now without wind, the ship cannot move, so he must use the magic sails? Is the mana in this magic sail enough for Bro to clear one round?
Da Fei feels a very severe ball-ache! He originally thought with the large ship, huge cannons and strong Heroes in hand, killing some BOSS is a piece of cake, and a mere epic quest should be nothing. But the result is this kind of situation? It will be slightly better if Bro’s ship is a pirate’s sail boat with oars, so what now? What is more ball-ache than having the heart but lacking the strength is having the strength but have no way to use it, and what is even more ball-ache is having having endless strength!
While thinking, buzzing sound can be heard from the sky, and Da Fei is immediately on guard!
Beetles again! Hundreds of beetles are flying from god knows where and swooping onto the roots he just cleared out, and begins sucking again!
Oh fuck! Please do not tell Bro these beetles are unlimited? If that is the case, this is obviously telling Bro, the crux of this quest is never killing these beetles in the first place! That means destroying the nest?
So that is how it is! After figuring it out, Da Fei takes out the Blood Hawk’s Flute, clicks on use, and an invisible and blurry hawk rises up. At that very instant, Da Fei’s mini-map shrinks again, and there is a red ocean on the map. Oh my fuck, counting on the mini-map seems like a bad idea by minute, better to share vision with the hawk.
Da Fei controls this hawk to move forward along the direction the bugs came from just now. Just like sitting on a plane, the sight before him is swooping towards him. Isn’t this treasure way too useful? Oh fuck, Bro really cannot bear to return it!
Finally, found it! A huge squirming mass of flesh with countless tentacles and countless holes twining the roots, and countless of beetles are flying in and out of the holes on the mass of flesh!
Oh my fuck, so disgusting, must be it! Wait for it, Bro is coming to kill ya!
Feel free to point out typos and mistakes.
